Archives: November 2010
A perfect concept for the P&L District: Rolling Stone Restaurant & Lounge
If you’re planning to be in Los Angeles next Sunday — November 21 — you may want to stop and star-gawk at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland. That’s the night when a new restaurant-and-bar concept is officially unveiled as the venue for the after-party for the American Music Awards: the Rolling Stone Restaurant & Lounge. The venue marks…
Pigs in the city! Circus pigs make a break for it
First, it was a chimpanzee on the loose. Then it was a horse in the backseat of a car. Now we have pigs on the loose in downtown Kansas City — just like Babe: Pig in the City. Fox 4 ran the photo above, taken by Erika Van Tuy, on its website. Fox 4 reports that the pigs were spotted…
The Daily Show gets to the bottom of Missouri’s anti-puppy mill initiative
Voters passed the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act last week. It wasn’t an overwhelming win, but winning ugly is still winning. The act, also known as Prop B, is already being threatened by lawmakers sucking at the teats of breeder, and drunk on the milk, lawmakers say they’ll dilute the bill. And with good reason, if you follow this Daily…
Make Marilyn Monroe’s stuffing recipe for Thanksgiving
As one of Hollywood’s most iconic sex symbols, Marilyn Monroe — who died at age 36 in 1962 — has been the subject of numerous biographies, TV movies, screen documentaries, Andy Warhol silk screens and thousands of magazine and newspaper articles. Is there anything that the American public doesn’t know about the former Norma Jean Mortensen? Well, she cooked. And…
Michael Grace, bank teller, and friends accused of staging kidnapping, bank robbery
Remember that strange, movie-like bank robbery in Overland Park on Wednesday? The bad guys cased a bank, learning all about a young teller. Then, once they had memorized the teller’s routine, the robbers pounced, kidnapping him and forcing him to open the bank for them in the early morning, where they stuffed $62,000 in a duffel bag and rode off…
Paul Pierce isn’t impressed with LeBron James; Ex-Jayhawk sends tweet mocking King James
%{}% LeBron James doesn’t have shit on Paul Pierce. Pierce, a former Kansas Jayhawk with a curious taste in spectacles, and the Boston Celtics have now beaten James’ Miami Heat twice this season (last night’s score: 112-107). Pierce let the world know, via Twitter last night, with this comment mocking James most famous quote from “The Decision”: Categories: News Tags:…
Red Lobster’s ‘Endless shrimp’ ends Monday and new, cheaper menu items start Tuesday
Red Lobster, the budget-conscious seafood restaurant chain operated by Orlando-based Darden Restaurants Inc., is ending its “Endless Shrimp” promotion this coming Monday. But on Tuesday, all 700 Red Lobster restaurants in the United States — including the four locations in the Kansas City metro — will roll out a new menu that’s even more sensitive to budget-strapped diners. A story…
Ultimate Fakebook’s four parties tour
Ultimate Fakebook released a CD’s worth of tunes that they’ve unearthed from their back catalog earlier this year, for free. It’s called Daydream Radio is Smiling Static, and it’s the band’s first release in seven years. Now, they’re playing four dates this winter — that’s it, four! — and one of them is in Kansas City, at the RecordBar. Categories:…
Curtis Got Slapped! mom is a jazz musician [Updated]
If you live in Kansas City and you haven’t heard that Curtis Got Slapped!, you got another thing coming — that is, when Lisa Henry Bowen finds you. A teacher allegedly slapped Lisa Henry Bowen’s son, Curtis, in class at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, according to Bowen’s gigantic 40-page letter that Bowen CC’d to President Obama, Vice President…
Shoot a Brew meet Brewski Ball: Two local ideas that need to merge
No longer will you have to do the cumbersome work of bending over to open a cooler. Not with Shoot A Brew, which bills itself as “the world’s fastest only, remote controlled, beverage tossing cooler.” We are getting more innovative in our laziness. Shoot A Brew is locally made, created by Derek Hoy, who is apparently chasing an MBA in…
‘There’s a horse in the car!’ is the new ‘Double rainbow all the way!’
What can I tell you about this video, shot by the Potter family of Osage City, Kansas, as they were driving on Interstate 75 on the way to Wal-Mart? Nothing. There is nothing I can say that is not expressed in the child-like joy in the Potter’s voices as they wonder at a horse pushing its nose out the back…
Blackpool Lights to play its first shows in two years, new EP on the way
It’s so true what they say: When news related to the Get Up Kids rains, news related to the Get Up Kids pours. Last Friday, we told y’all about the new TGUK album, There Are Rules. Then Monday, there was news of band member James Dewees’ side project Reggie and the Full Effect reuniting for a New Years’ show. Today:…
One killed in eight vehicle wreck on 169 Highway southbound
Bad fatality wreck on the road. At least one person was killed in an eight vehicle wreck on southbound 169 Highway in North Kansas City. The accident occurred around 9:50 a.m., the Star says. KMBC adds that southbound 169 Highway is closed at 9 Highway (and they also have images from the mangled vehicles at the scene). If you’re heading…
Butter is the latest ‘it’ condiment, Julia Child was right all along
Butter apparently does make everything better. The Wall Street Journal contends that mountains of high-end butter are the latest dining craze in Asia. Butter, particularly small batches of artisan butter, are being touted by three-star Michelin restaurants as a delicacy that trumps the bread with which it is served. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
John Travis thrown down a flight of stairs for asking neighbor to keep the noise down
Remember this story the next time your neighbor wakes you up with thumping German techno beats at 4 a.m. and you want to storm upstairs and whoop some ass. John Travis heard a commotion outside of his apartment on Tuesday around 10 p.m. and found his upstairs neighbor and another man arguing, Fox 4 reported. Travis asked them to keep…
Adam Lee and the Dead Horse Sound Company on whiskey, women, and the beauty of lap steel
Early on a Tuesday night, dressed like they just stepped off a plane from Marlboro Country, Adam Lee and Johnny Kenepaske, of Adam Lee and the Dead Horse Sound Company, stride into Chez Charlie’s in midtown to discuss their second full-length release, When the Spirits Move Me. It’s a honky-tonk-heavy album that celebrates whiskey, women and the beauty of lap…
Texting and Dining: We need some limits
I was recently dined with a friend, about a decade my junior, who texted during the course of our entire meal. Silence was filled in by his fingers rapidly clacking over the keys of his smartphone. He was also able to text and talk simultaneously. We didn’t have a conversation, so much as get in a few words between electronic…
Kansas City police car shot up — two officers inside unhurt (updated)
UPDATE: Turns out, the cops weren’t getting shot at. The investigation into last night’s supposed shooting found that the police officers weren’t really getting shot at; the sound was actually the van backfiring. Read the update after the jump … Two Kansas City police officers must have some good karma built up. The officers were in their cruiser when someone…
Five perfectly good foods ruined by a mustache
Hopefully, you’re seeing mustaches everywhere. November is Movember — a month-long charity event designed to raise awareness and funds to help fight cancers that affect men. As a service to the participants, Fat City wanted to warn those new to the cookie duster about the foods they should shy away from this month. And so we present the five perfectly…
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